Elite colleges scramble to backtrack after evading questions about antisemitism

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Liz Magill, president of University of Pennsylvania, testifies before Congress
Liz Magill, president of University of Pennsylvania, testifies before the House Education and Workforce Committee in Washington, DC.

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Bill Ackman wants Harvard, MIT, and UPenn's presidents to 'resign in disgrace'

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Bill Ackman (left) and Claudine Gay (right).
Bill Ackman (left) called for the resignation of college presidents such as Harvard's Claudine Gay (right) on Tuesday. Gay had participated in a congressional hearing on Harvard's on-campus antisemitism on the same day.

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Pfizer CEO slams Harvard, MIT, and UPenn's presidents: 'One of the most despicable moments in the history of US academia'

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Albert Bourla (left) and Claudine Gay (right).
Pfizer chairman and CEO Albert Bourla (left) and Harvard president Claudine Gay (right).

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Harvard alumni are slashing donations and taking the college out of their wills over its response to the Israel-Hamas war: Bloomberg

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Harvard University Commencement ceremony.
"I will not be calling any of my classmates to try to encourage them to donate to Harvard. There are plenty of better places that I feel my classmates can use their philanthropy and influence," Harvard alumni Tally Zingher told Bloomberg.

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I'm a Harvard student. Our freshman dining hall looks amazing, but some of our meals lack seasoning and variety.

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The dining-hall food at Harvard isn't great.

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Bill Ackman says antisemitism is the 'canary in the coal mine' for other discriminatory practices at Harvard

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CEO and Portfolio Manager Pershing Square Capital Management L.P. William Ackman speaks at The New York Times DealBook Conference at Jazz at Lincoln Center on November 10, 2016 in New York City.

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I'm a freshman at Yale and just went to my first Harvard-Yale football game. The weekend was one of my favorites at college so far.

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The author and his friends at the Yale-Harvard football game.

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'Alien tech' purportedly discovered by Harvard team might just be coal waste

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A Harvard professor and his team claim that tiny balls from the Pacific Ocean may be evidence of alien technology. A new report disputes the idea.

A Harvard professor claimed balls found in the ocean were alien tech. They may have just been industrial waste.

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Physicist Avi Loeb, right, is on stage with physicist Stephen Hawking and others, who are unrelated to this article, in New York in 2016.

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More than 1,600 Jewish Harvard alumni threaten to stop donations as campus antisemitism worries grow

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Supporters of Palestine gather at Harvard University to show their support for Palestinians in Gaza at a rally in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 14, 2023.
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